5/30/2002 - Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY), announced today it has received a Gold Vendor Rating from the Venture Development Corporation (VDC) for merchant computer boards in embedded and real-time systems. VDC, an independent technology market research and strategy firm, rated Mercury as a Gold Vendor in the in the following merchant board categories: General (all bus architectures and form factors), VME, PCI, and CompactPCI.